You're doing it wrong ...

Conferences

Abstract

When I get to talk to people about the product I’m working
on, the first thing many if not most of them ask me
about is the technology stack we use. Often followed by our process for making
the decision for that specific stack in the first place.

While a little more than two years ago, when we were making that decision, I
very likely would have asked the same things, after a while I began to think,
that we as an industry are doing it all wrong. The choice of our technology or
stack or even programming language, the things we so often argue or even fight
about, actually don’t really matter when it comes to a product’s success.

But then, what matters? What are the things and factors that help to make your
product successful? Of course other disciples like Design, UX, Product
Management and then some are all hugely important.

Still, encompassing all those and how we do technology, are principles and
practices that make our endeavors successful. It’s how we treat each other in a
team, it’s how we conduct our work, how we arrive at the principles that guide
and shape a team’s work.